2027 Intern, PhD Research Scientist

The role

You will join a team of research scientists and engineers building AI for safe self-driving. You will lead or contribute to AI research projects and design, implement, train and optimize algorithms on self-driving vehicles and production systems.

What you will do

• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team of research scientists and engineers using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
• Lead or contribute to AI research projects, developing new algorithms for autonomous vehicles in areas such as perception, prediction, motion planning, controls, simulation, mapping, localization and
• Design, implement, train and optimize novel algorithms on self-driving vehicles and various production systems.
• Submit and publish work externally at top machine learning, computer vision and robotics conferences, and post to the company blog.

Required qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics or a similar technical field.
• Demonstrated research or software engineering experience through internships, work experience, coding competitions, and/or research projects and papers.
• At least one publication in top Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or Robotics conferences.
• Strong quantitative background and coursework in or working knowledge of linear algebra, calculus and probability.
• Proficient in reading and coding in Python and/or C++.
• Open-minded and collaborative team player willing to help others.
• Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems and creating innovative solutions.
• Submit most up-to-date academic transcripts with resume for internship/co-op consideration.

Benefits

• Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
• Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events.

Before you apply

• Internship/co-op candidates must submit academic transcripts alongside their resume.

About the company

Waabi, founded by Raquel Urtasun, is a technology start-up in Physical AI building technology for commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. It is backed by and partners with leaders in AI, automotive, logistics and deep tech.